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Local Author Showcase

All Arts Festival: Local Author Showcase

Sunday, August 21st - 3 pm 

Celebrate the literary arts at Off the Beaten Path. A select panel of local authors will share excerpts from their books and will discuss their inspirations and future writing projects. Books will be available for signing.

Featured Authors: Harriet Freiberger, Dagny McKinley, and John Whittum. 

This event is part of the Steamboat Springs All Arts Festival.

  

 

About the Authors 

Harriet Freiberger is a professional writer whose articles have been published both regionally and nationally. Her B.B.A. in finance and M.A. in literature, along with twenty years in the business world, preceded an increasing fascination with history. Moving from Memphis, Tennessee to the western slope of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains in 1982 connected her with the American West in a new way. Earlier post graduate work in creative writing led to her leadership of the Steamboat Writers Group, a weekly seminar for writers under the auspices of the Steamboat Arts Council. Then, talking with grandchildren and great-grandchildren of pioneers who ventured westward in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Harriet gained a larger perspective of the creativity and entrepreneurship required to build and sustain a community. Then and Now: A History of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, (co-authored with photographer Ken Proper ) was published in 2009. A second and updated edition of her first book Lucien Maxwell: Villain or Visionary (Eagle Press, Parker, Colorado ) will be released at the event. Line drawings by Jean Kashner ( deceased, 2011) of Hayden, Colorado will once again accompany Harriet's words.

Dagny McKinley has lived many places, but found a home in the expansive granite landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. She is as comfortable in the city as she is in the wilderness, but prefers the challenges of big mountains and surviving outdoors. McKinley stays current on environmental issues, women’s issues and is an avid animal rights supporter. She believes all lives are interconnected and each person, landscape and insect has something to offer and teach. Writing has been a part of McKinley’s life since she was a small child. She found healing through writing and nature and continues immerse herself in those passions today. She is the author of The Springs of Steamboat: Healing Waters, Mysterious Caves & Sparkling Soda, The Adventures of a Girl & Her Dog: In the Mountains, and Wild Hearts: Dog Sledding the Rockies. She currently works as a freelance writer and photographer in Colorado.

John Whittum was born in the South, raised in the East, and educated at four different colleges (BA at Harvard). Whittum left his comfort zone to teach at the experimental Whiteman School in Northwest Colorado in 1963, where he was a teacher/headmaster for 25 years. His book, Reflections from Northwest Colorado,  tells humorous stories of his community’s passage from cow town to resort metropolis and reveals his immersion in the beauty of its natural surroundings. The final story recounts the school’s tumultuous 7th year in which its students defiantly march away in a “Lord of the Flies” episode.

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Date: 08/21/2016
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Place:

68 9th Steet
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
United States